Give us Roald ahead of the Bard any day! Legendary children's author Dahl beats Shakespeare in readers' survey.(News)

South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) | August 19, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Gerry Holt

ONE has delighted and terrified generations in equal measure with Oompa Loompas, the Twits and the formidable Miss Trunchbull - while the other is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

But Britain has voted for the more-often-than-not revolting creations of Roald Dahl ahead of the world's most famous bard, William Shakespeare, in a poll to find Britain's best-loved writers.

In recent years, Cardiff-born Dahl has been consistently voted the most popular children's author in the UK, but today's poll shows he is ...

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